Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes Spirit

ICP’s Incubator is located on ICP’s ground floor. The space is free and open to the public during café and museum hours. Photographer and ICP alum Andrea Hernández Briceño has been documenting the indigenous Huöttöja people in the Amazon basin since 2024. Many members of the Huöttöja community feel the pull of the mining industry, which promises to make them rich but threatens to dilute their culture. Hernández Briceño was invited to document their traditions and ancestral knowledge as a way to preserve them, but also set herself the goal to avoid being another outsider that left them feeling exploited. She aims to create a body of work that reflects the Huöttöja worldview and spirituality by nurturing a long term relationship with the community and its main goal: to show us that humans are not separate from nature, but an extension of it.